General Order No. 44

March 5, 1974

GENERAL ORDER NO. 44

WHEREAS, following the issuance of Proclamation No. 1081 dated September 21, 1972, which declared a state of martial law, and in order to achieve the objectives thereof, appropriate measures have been adopted, including the maintenance of a curfew between the hours of twelve o'clock midnight and four o'clock in the morning;

WHEREAS, the application of said measures has produced a measure of stability and created those social and economic conditions, not possible before the proclamation of martial law, which are necessary to enable the nation to organize and harness its resources for development and progress;

WHEREAS, the degree of reconstruction and growth that the application of said measures has achieved now in turn necessitates further measures to meet new requirements posed by progress itself, such as enlarged economic opportunities as reflected in the growth of various trades and industries and the unprecedented growth of tourism in the Philippines.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081 dated September 21, 1972 and General Order No. 1 dated September 22, 1972 as amended, do hereby order that the curfew established by and enforced under General Order No. 4 be modified and re-set to the hours from one o'clock in the morning to four o'clock in the morning: Provided, That the present curfew may be maintained in any place outside Greater Manila where, in the judgment of the Secretary of Defense and the Chief of the Philippine Constabulary duly approved by the President of the Philippines, conditions do not warrant the modification hereby ordered.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 5th day of March in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four. AaCTcI